American Puppet Modernism (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: August 5, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403979810
Subjects: History; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance; Americas (North Central South West Indies); General; Puppets & Puppetry; Performing Arts / General; Art objects; Masks; Puppet theater; United States
Description: Playing with stuff: the material world in performance -- The Sioux war panorama and American mythic history -- Shalako puppets and nineteenth-century ritual -- The little theatre movement and the birth of the American puppeteer: Midwest puppet modernism -- New York puppet modernism: Remo Bufano and Jane Heap -- Puppets and propaganda: 1930s: Gertrude Stein's "Identity"--Sorcery to science: Remo Bufano and World's Fair Puppet theatre -- Performing objects, special effects, and mass media -- Automobile performance and kustom kulture -- Beyond the Cold War: Bread and puppet theater at the end of the century -- Old and new materials: wood, paper, metal, plastic, bone.